Summary: The NDP look to hold on to Windsor-Tecumseh following the departure of five-term MP Joe Comartin.
Boundaries: The eastern, more suburban-rural of Windsor’s two ridings, this district includes all of the bedroom town of Tecumseh, along with neighbourhoods in Windsor east of Langlois Avenue and Pilette Road.
Last Election: Comartin defeated Conservative candidate Denise Ghanam by 16.4 per cent. He received 49.9 per cent of the vote, his highest share in his five elections.
History: Comartin has held this riding since 2000, but prior to that it was generally a Liberal stronghold, having been represented by MP Mark Macguigan from 1968 to 1984, and Shaughnessy Cohen from 1993 to 1999.
Demographics: The 2011 National Household Survey says Windsor-Tecumseh has the second highest number of Iraqi and Lebanese immigrants in Canada outside Quebec.
Candidates
Conservative: Jo-Anne Gignac, Windsor city councillor since 2003
NDP: Cheryl Hardcastle, Tecumseh deputy mayor from 2011 to 2014
Liberal: Frank Schiller, owner of an Ottawa-based public affairs and government relations company
Green: David Momotiuk, delivery driver
Marxist-Leninist: Laura Chesnik
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